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Vince:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 18, 2022, 04:11:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on July 18, 2022, 03:34:18 pm ---...Temperature-wise, here today is the peak / worst day of the heat wave, and it's 17H30 so we have now reached max temp for the day. It's 41°C (106°F) in my little village.

It's freaking 27°C in my living room according to the built-in thermostat in the heater, which is normally lethally high for me (anything above 18°C is uncomfortable for me... hate heat), but somehow I am still alive. Probably because the air is very dry, luckily, zero sweat. Of course I am naked in my living room and take cold showers every now and then, come out soaking wet out of the shower and straight in front of the fan in the living room... physics does the rest and cools me down.
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Now I feel a bit ashamed for complaining about only having half my AC working; still better than your lot with that heat and none at all. :-[

Take care of yerself, brother. As someone who grew up on a farm with a fish pond right out back of the house, I know from personal experience that there's only a few things stink worse than a dead frog baking in the sun.  :-DD

Unless it's a dozen of 'em.  :o

mnem
No, this really happened when I was like 12. To this day still a total :wtf: happened...

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Strangely, the air is so dry, desert-like, that although I have never in my entire life experienced such a silly high temperature.... I feel quite OK, zero sweat, not sticky at all.... bone dry. It's incredible. Usually I can be all sweaty at only 20 or 25°C because of the humidity here by the ocean, but today at 41, not even sticky. Humidity is everything !!  >:D

Still, can't complain. 41 outside 27 inside, that's 14 degrees less than the outside temp, for a house that's oriented south and no air-con, I think it's doing pretty well. I think once I install sprinklers on the roof and south wall, it should be enough to drop the temps to 20°C and not even need aircon, which I can't afford anyway, neither to buy the H/W, never mind to pay for the electricity to power it.
AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 18, 2022, 03:18:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 18, 2022, 01:53:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 18, 2022, 11:17:42 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 18, 2022, 11:00:00 am ---
--- Quote from: tautech on July 18, 2022, 07:58:51 am ---
--- Quote from: Brumby on July 18, 2022, 07:56:50 am ---Now where did I see it ...?  Something about a bodily function and a rope... ... ...

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You can forgive the Poms as they've yet not learnt how to properly chill beer !

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Oh, we've tried. We found that it is impossible to do.

Chilling gnat's piss is easy, however.

Gnat's piss examples include Coors and anything that needs to be advertised by a "muscle man" (Which may or may not also be Coors; nobody cares)

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Maybe its due to the higher alcohol content of our beers, gnats piss is by default, largely just coloured water  :P :-DD

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I don't think so. Some gnat's piss has standard alcohol content, and some beer has a low alcoholic content - and is quite pleasant in summer :)


--- Quote ---What ever, consuming quantities of said amber nectar over here in the UK is not to be advised during this heat as the alcohol actually dehydrates you so the experts warn...hang on, isn't that confirming the sentence above has some truth to it  :-// :-DD

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Beer will dehydrate you less than, say, a G&T. If 10mg of alcohol "dehydrates" you by encouraging urination, then with a beer you will get more water with that 10mg to "rehydrate" you.

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The whole thing about beer dehydrating you is an old wives' tale. Each gram of alcohol consumed causes a net loss of around 10 ml of water (generally accepted and easy to remember figure). So a pint (568 ml) of 4% abv beer contains 22.7 ml of alcohol, giving 17.9 g of alcohol. This will cause the loss of 180ml of water, but the pint of beer will have supplied about 540 ml of water (with perhaps a small fudge factor for dissolved solids), leaving a net result of at 360 ml of additional hydration.

The G&T case is actually marginal as well: 25 ml shot of 40% gin - ~8gm alcohol - net fluid loss (80 - 15) = 65 ml to be made up with tonic water and ice. So as long as your G&T is 1:2.6 gin and tonic respectively you're not going to suffer dehydration, with any excess tonic over the 2.6 contributing to hydration, but by the time you get any significant hydration from drinking it you're going to be pissed as an admiral.

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I don't think this is how it works. AFAIK the water passes through your system quite quickly, while the alcohol takes time to break down. Also I believe the headache associated with hangovers is caused by the buildup of acetaldehyde, which needs more water to help flush it from the system? After a quick read of this I'm not really much the wiser; looks like the answer is "it's complicated".

The fact remains however, that if I had enough to drink that I got wobbly the night before, the morning after I'll have a mouth drier than a sachet of desiccant beads in the Atacama desert.
TERRA Operative:
I for one piss like a racehorse after 'breaking the seal' after a few beers...

I've taken to interleaving beer with water to try to keep up. The cottonmouth is real, and somehow I keep thinking more beer is the answer. :D
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 18, 2022, 03:18:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 18, 2022, 01:53:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 18, 2022, 11:17:42 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 18, 2022, 11:00:00 am ---
--- Quote from: tautech on July 18, 2022, 07:58:51 am ---
--- Quote from: Brumby on July 18, 2022, 07:56:50 am ---Now where did I see it ...?  Something about a bodily function and a rope... ... ...

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You can forgive the Poms as they've yet not learnt how to properly chill beer !

--- End quote ---

Oh, we've tried. We found that it is impossible to do.

Chilling gnat's piss is easy, however.

Gnat's piss examples include Coors and anything that needs to be advertised by a "muscle man" (Which may or may not also be Coors; nobody cares)

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Maybe its due to the higher alcohol content of our beers, gnats piss is by default, largely just coloured water  :P :-DD

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I don't think so. Some gnat's piss has standard alcohol content, and some beer has a low alcoholic content - and is quite pleasant in summer :)


--- Quote ---What ever, consuming quantities of said amber nectar over here in the UK is not to be advised during this heat as the alcohol actually dehydrates you so the experts warn...hang on, isn't that confirming the sentence above has some truth to it  :-// :-DD

--- End quote ---

Beer will dehydrate you less than, say, a G&T. If 10mg of alcohol "dehydrates" you by encouraging urination, then with a beer you will get more water with that 10mg to "rehydrate" you.

--- End quote ---

The whole thing about beer dehydrating you is an old wives' tale. Each gram of alcohol consumed causes a net loss of around 10 ml of water (generally accepted and easy to remember figure). So a pint (568 ml) of 4% abv beer contains 22.7 ml of alcohol, giving 17.9 g of alcohol. This will cause the loss of 180ml of water, but the pint of beer will have supplied about 540 ml of water (with perhaps a small fudge factor for dissolved solids), leaving a net result of at 360 ml of additional hydration.

The G&T case is actually marginal as well: 25 ml shot of 40% gin - ~8gm alcohol - net fluid loss (80 - 15) = 65 ml to be made up with tonic water and ice. So as long as your G&T is 1:2.6 gin and tonic respectively you're not going to suffer dehydration, with any excess tonic over the 2.6 contributing to hydration, but by the time you get any significant hydration from drinking it you're going to be pissed as an admiral.

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Just so.

I suspect the concept of dehydration stems from conflating a headache when you've drunk too much or are dehydrated. The Delicious impurities in the dilute alcohol are more likely culprits than the alcohol itself.
Vince:

--- Quote from: Zenith on July 18, 2022, 04:15:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on July 18, 2022, 03:34:18 pm ---

All I can gather is that " KSS " is the name of the manufacturer, whoever that is.

IF anyone knows what KSS does for a living and has a datasheet for this thing, before I add it to my "destined to the trash bin" pile, well that would be nice...


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https://www2.jotrin.com/manufacturer/details/KSS

American KSS was bought by AVX in 2004. It's quite likely some sort of filter or oscillator.

That site has data sheets for some other KSS chips, if you register.


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Wow.. sounds like you know Jotrin and even have an account there ?! I alwyas thought it was a ghost / fake website, a scam... like the billions of such component sellers that Google floods me with when I search for stuff. So you mean that Jotrin is legit ?! It's a real business, they really sell you components, they don't just run away with your money ?!  :o


--- Quote from: Zenith on July 18, 2022, 04:15:06 pm ---Joseph Fourier, who came from your general neck of the woods, had a thing about heat. He made significant contributions to the theory of heat flow, amongst other things. He also believed that the hotter he was the better his brain worked. He was often found in the middle of summer, wearing heavy clothing with a blazing log fire, working at his mathematics.

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That's why people are scared of scientist and nerds... because we are really weird !!!  :scared:


18H30 I am freaking hungry, haven't eaten anything today... but I can't cook anything otherwise the gas cooker will raise the temperature in the living room (small house here), I have no extraction apparatus for now in the kitchen.... top priority for now is building the garage, building the kitchen is way down in the list...  :(
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